ML20024B096

Motion to Defer Hearing on Evacuation Time Estimates, Contentions III.12 & III.13,until Hearing on Offsite Emergency Planning.Delay Necessary to Provide ASLB W/Testimony on All Contentions.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML20024B096
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	06/28/1983
From:	Shotwell J MASSACHUSETTS, COMMONWEALTH OF
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
ISSUANCES-OL, NUDOCS 8307050203
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MOTION OF ATTORNEY GENERAL FRANCIS X. BELLOTTI TO DEFER HEARING ON EVACUATION TIME ESTIMATES (CONTENTIONS NECNP III.12 and III.13) w With the assent of NECNP, Attorney General Bellotti hereby moves the Board to defer the evidentiary hearing on NECNP

• Contentions III.12 and III.13, regarding the Applicants' ,

eva=uation time estimates, until the hearing on off -site-emergency planning. In suppor t of this reques t, Attorney

General Bellotti notes that the contentions which he has recently filed on the New Hampshire Radiological Emergency l Response Plan challenge the Applicants'. evacua tion time l

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e s :i=a te s, n:w incorporated into that emergency plan.b/

See Contenticas of Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti Relative to Emergency Planning for the State of New Hampshire, at 12-17, 26-30. ih e s, if the Board proceeds to a hearing now on NECNP's evacuatics time contentions, there is a very real possibility of duplication of effort on the part of both parties and the Board a t d:e tire of the hearing on off-site issues.

Mere icportantly, it has become clear from a recent filing o f the NIC S:aff tha t the Board will be unable to make any coreltsive r: lings with respect to the Applicants' evacuation tire es timates in the absence of of f-site emergency plans. In ,-

an affidavit attached to the "NRC Staff Response to Applicants' Seven th (Contention NH-21) and Twenty-Firs t (Contentions NECNP III.12 and 13) Mo tions for Summary Disposition," filed Jure 6, 1383, the Staff's evacuation time expert, John R.

Sears, indicates that it is impossible to know whether the ,

Applican ts ' evacuation time study serves one of the o

1/ Attorney General Bellotti had also filed contentions challenging those time estimates as they appeared in the FSAR a t dbe commercecent of this operating license proceeding, but the contestiens were ruled premature due to the absence of off-site ete:gency plans. Tha t Board action, which was not l appealed by Attorney General Bellottti, confirms the premise j underlying this motion -- namely, that the accuracy of l . evacuation time estimates is most appropriately considered in I

the context cf of f-site emergency plans..

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two p:rpcses for which it was required -- namely, its use by decisionrakers in the event of an emergency -- in the absence of local e=ergency plans. See Affidavit of John R. Sears, Pars. 9, 12. Specifically, Mr . Sears s ta tes tha t the NRC re uires eva:uation time estimates, in par t, because they are h elp f:1 to decisionmakers in choosing appropriate protective actions in as energency and that it is only "[ij f the local

[erergencyl plans reflect the traffic control and routing a ssu=,:ticas sed by the Applican ts [ tha t) the time estimates de elcped by the Applicants will . . . be useful tools for decisioncakers in the even t of an emergency." Ibid. ,

The expert who is advising this party on issues related to evacuatica time estimates agrees with the Staff's expert that off-site emergency plans are needed before one can conclude that evacuation time estimates have been properly prepared so as to assist protective action decisionmakers t and that this is particularly true in this case where, as the NRC Staff has again itself concluded, the Applican ts ' es timates are o "optinistic" and depend upon a level of traffic control the achieve =ent of which cannot be confirmed ~ in the absence of evacuation plans. See NUREG/CR-2903, "An Independent Assessment of Evacuction Time Es timates for a Peak Population Scenario in the Emergency Planning Zone of the Seabrook Huclear Power Station," (October, 1982), a t iv. and 20.

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. . _ t Thus, an affidavit recently filed. t,y" the NRC Staff clearly de:cns trates that a h' earing on avacuation time estimates in the absence of off-site plans cannot provide the basis for a Board

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decision that the Commission's requirkmcats. have been . _

s atisfied. In light of' this new information, Attorney General Eellotti respectfully requests tha t' the Boad d de'fe

• the heating on NECNP Contentions III.12 and 13 until the hearing on off-site emergency planning, . at which: time- tes timony can be ta'r.en on all contentions which rela t_e to evacuation times and the Board will be in a position to make a determination as to the Applicants ' satisf action of the NRC requirementis. in thic, ,

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Respectfully submitted,-

ATTORNEY GENERAL FRANCIS.,X. BELLOTTI By: N = -

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J[A n Shotwell, f Assis tant Attorney General Environmental Protection Division One Ashburton Place Boston, Massachuse tts 02102 (617) 727-2265

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I, Co Ann Skotv' ell, Esquire, counsel for Massachusetts Attorney 1' !! ' General iFrancir: X. Bellotti, hereby certify that on June 28, 1983, I made

. service op .the 4 tthin Motion, by mailing copies thereof, postage prepaid, td: -

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• Rep. Beverly Hollingworth Aqccic Safe ty ar.d licensing Coastal Chamber of Commerce Ecard Panel 209 Winnacunnet Road U . E .- N clear. Regulatory. Commission Hampton, NH 03842 Washington,: DC 2 O 55 5 Dr c ,Ezze ti A. Luebke* William S. Jordan, III, Esquire

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• Edward L. Cross, Jr., Esquire Atcmic Safety and Licensing Assistant Attorney General Esarf Pane] Dana Bisbee, Esquire U. S. N: clear Regulatory Commission Assistant Attorney General Washington, DC 20555 Office of the Attorney General 208 State House Annex i Concord, NH 03301 i AtesicySafety and Licensing Appeal Roy P. Lessy, Jr., Esquire

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U. S. N citar Regulatory Commission Robert G. Perlis, Esquire

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. Assis tant Attorney General Sun Valley Association Depar t:ent of the Attorney 209 Summer Street

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Washington, EC 20555 Mr . Coin E. Canzer Ms. Olive L. Tash Designated Representative of Designated Representative of the Town of Hampton the Town of Brentwood 5 Morningside Drive R.F . D. 1, Dalton Road E arpton , NH 03842 Brentwood, NH 03833 Roter ta C. ?evear Edward F. Meany Designated Representative of Designated Representative of the town of Hampton Falls the Town of Rye Drinkwater acad 155 Washington Road Earpto: Falls, N3 03844 Rye, NH 03870 Mr s. Sandra Gavutis Calvin A. Canney Designated Representative of City Manager the Cown of Kensington City Hall '

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Brian P. Cassidy Representative Nicholas J. Costello Regional Counsel 1st Essex District FZMA Region 1 Whitehall Road John W. McCormack Post Office Amesbury, MA 01913

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Signed rnder the pains and penalties of perjury, this 28th day of Ju ne , 1933.

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